the horn" writer kevin blackstone ragged on the american flag uniforms northwestern university are donning to raise cash for the wounded warriors. the star spangled banner, he hates that too. >> -- should also be selling the rest of the military symbolism, whether it's the war anthem to open every game, whether it's going to get a hot dog and being able to sign up for the army at the time. whether it's the nfl's epbrambr of the pat tillman story. it's been going on in sports since the world serie unless 1917 and it's time for people to back away. >> fun. blackstone claims we are conflating a war anthem with a simple game. accentuated by flayovers and recruiters on site. now, he may think he's daring but he's parroting the same old crud that the military's big, bad and impressive. our military's the only thing that se rates the free from the unfree. a walking cliche, reveling in words like symbolism and mythology. he's the guy you avoid at parties. here's why, he's a professor. which proves maxim number five, put a professor anywhere and anywhere gets worse. sports is fun. people live flyov